US Patent Issued to Silicon Motion on March 3 for "Method for controlling flash memory module and associated flash memory controller and memory device" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,664, issued on March 3, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Method for controlling flash memory module and associated flash memory controller and memory device" was invented by Tzu-Yi Yang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for controlling a flash memory module. The method includes the steps of: after the flash memory module is powered on, determining whether the flash memory module encountered an abnormal power failure before the flash memory module is powered on; if the flash memory module encounters the abnormal power failure before the flash me...